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SmallerMUNCIE, Ind. - Ball State University will host a memorial service April 28 for a history professor who recently passed away.
Sponsored by Ball State's Department of History, the program for Lawrence J. Birken, 51, will be from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Forum Room in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. It is open to the public.
Birken, an associate professor of history, died April 20 after a short illness. He joined Ball State in 1989 after teaching at Monmouth College, Rutgers University, Hamilton College, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and New York University.
He was born in New York, N.Y., the son of Abraham H. and Millicent Miller Birken. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, a master's degree from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
By Marc Ransford, Media Relations ManagerSponsored by Ball State's Department of History, the program for Lawrence J. Birken, 51, will be from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Forum Room in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. It is open to the public.
Birken, an associate professor of history, died April 20 after a short illness. He joined Ball State in 1989 after teaching at Monmouth College, Rutgers University, Hamilton College, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and New York University.
He was born in New York, N.Y., the son of Abraham H. and Millicent Miller Birken. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, a master's degree from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
